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| Record Name(s) | Gaffney Prospect - 1904, Manitou Island - 1904 |
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| Related Record Type | Simple |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1983-May-26 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Apr-20 |
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Primary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Lower Manitou Lake Area
Latitude: 49° 16' 5.74" Longitude: -92° 58' 13.22"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 502157.732 Northing: 5457278.359 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Kenora
NTS Grid: 52F07SW
Point Location Description: Precise
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
Access Description: The Gaffney prospect is located 57 km south-southwest of Dryden, midway along the southeast shore of Manitou Island of Lower Manitou Lake. Access to the prospect is via motor boat or float plane. The prospect consists of two pits and 26 trenches. (OFR 5731, p. 58-64; 1990)
1904-1905: Mike Nooman sunk a 37.5 feet deep shaft on a quartz vein (Assessment File 52F/07 SW, EE-1, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora), now filled in but probably at the intersection of Zone C and the northeast trending felsic dike. 1927-1928:Anglo-Canadian Explorers Ltd. opened up 15 trenches uncovering several quartz veins and a zone of sulphides over a length of 900 feet. The claims were allowed to come open in 1928 (Assessment Files, 52F/07 SW, EE-1, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). 1928: Frank Gaffney re-staked the claims and organized the Manitou Island syndicate (Assessment File: 52F/07 SW, EE-1, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). He collected a number of samples, all of which returned gold values on assay, the best being 2.07 ounces of gold per ton (Assessment File 52F/07 SW, EE-1, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). 1931: Claims came open and were restaked by F. Gaffney (Thomson 1933). 1933 - 1934: Property optioned by D.H. Angus. Six holes were diamond drilled for a total footage of 1506 feet (Assessment File 52F/07 SW, E-l, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora), and thirty samples of the core sent for assay. The best result was 0.29 ounce of gold per ton over 5 feet from hole #1. Resampling and assaying of the trenches was also done. The best chip sample across 5 feet assayed 0.91 ounces of gold per ton in trench #8 (Assessment File 52F/07 SW, CC-1, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). A chip sample taken by Thomson (1933) across 12 feet of sulphide material from pit #1 assayed 1.48 ounces gold per ton. 1937: Gaffney Mines Ltd. diamond drilled fourteen holes for a total footage of 1651 feet, to test beneath several trenches to a depth from fifty to one hundred feet. The best assay from core samples yielded 0.54 ounce of gold per ton over 11 feet in hole #12. (Assessment Files 52F/07 SW, E-l, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). 1943: The property was optioned by Sylvanite Gold Mines from Frank Gaffney. 1944-1945: Twenty-one holes were diamond drilled by Sylvanite Gold Mines for a total footage of 3100 feet. The deepest holes tested 200 feet below Zones A and B (Assessment Files 52F/07 SW, EE-1, Resident Geologists's Office, Kenora). 1983-1984:Teck Corporation purchased the patented ground. With their joint venture partner Noxe Petroleum Corporation they conducted magnetic, VLF-electromagnetic, and geological surveys, and diamond drilled 21 holes totalling 2,738 m (Assessment Files 52F/07 SW, Y-2, Resident Geologist's Office, Kenora). The best intersection assayed 0.157 ounce of gold per ton over 20.5 m (The Northern Miner, December 14, 1987). 1987:Teck Corporation and San Paulo Exploration Inc. diamond drilled 7 holes (The Northern Miner, May 9, 1988).
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wabigoon
Terrane: Western Wabigoon
Belt: Eagle-Wabigoon-Manitou
Geological Age: Precambrian
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Quartz-Rich Granitoid | 1 | Adjacent |
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| Vein | 2 | Contains |
| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 5 | Chalcopyrite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 10 | Gold | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 15 | Pyrite | Economic | Ore |
Dec 10, 2009 (D Scholtz) - GRADE - HIGHEST ASSAYS: 0.157 OPT AU/20.5M, 0.91 OPT AU/1.5 M, 0.54 OPT AU OVER 3.4 M,
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| Manitou Island | 1990 | Probable | 300000 | Canadian Mines Handbook 1990-91 p393 | Gold 0.15 oz/T |
Book - Northern Miner 88-03-07, San Paulo, p. A24
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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Book - Northern Miner 88-05-09, San Paulo
Publication Number: NMINER Date: 1996
Author:
Publisher Name: Northern Miner
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Part - Geology of the Manitou-Stormy lakes area
Publication Number: ARV42-04.001 Page: 27-31 Date: 1998
Author: Thomson J.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
MonoMap - Geology of the Lower Manitou-Uphill lakes area, District of Kenora
Publication Number: R142 Page: 60-63 Date: 1976
Author: Blackburn C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Gold deposits of the Kenora-Fort Frances area, districts of Kenora and Rainy River
Publication Number: MDC016 Page: 26 Date: 1976
Author: Beard R.C., Garratt G.L.
Publisher Name: Ontario Division of Mines
Location:
Mono - Feasibility of small scale gold mining in northwestern Ontario (parts of the districts of Kenora, Rainy River, and Thunder Bay), volume 1, text, volume 2, appendices
Publication Number: OFR5332 Page: 36-37 Date: 1981
Author: Neilson J.N., Bray R.C.E.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
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Mono - Property visits by the Dryden area mineral commodity geologist, 1989
Publication Number: OFR5731 Page: 58-64 Date: 1990
Author: Delisle P.C.
Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey
Location:
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